An Other Kingdom: Departing the Consumer Culture
9 best books like An Other Kingdom: Departing the Consumer Culture (Peter Block): The Printed Letter Bookshop, The Bookshop on the Shore, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future, The Second Mountain, Paper Wife, Thirst, A Malady of Magicks, The Gift of Being Yourself: The Sacred Call to Self-Discovery, The Fate of Fausto
The Printed Letter Bookshop
| Author | Katherine Reay |
| ISBN | 0785222006 |
Love, friendship, and family find a home at the Printed Letter Bookshop
One of Madeline Cullen’s happiest childhood memories is of working with her Aunt Maddie in the quaint and cozy Printed Letter Bookshop. But by the time Madeline inherits the shop nearly twenty years later, family troubles...
The Bookshop on the Shore
| Author | Jenny Colgan |
| ISBN | 0062850180 |
A grand baronial house on Loch Ness, a quirky small-town bookseller, and a single mom looking for a fresh start all come together in this witty and warm-hearted novel by New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan.
Desperate to escape from London, single mother Zoe wants to build a new life...
Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
| Author | Pete Buttigieg |
| ISBN | 1631494368 |
Once described by the Washington Post as “the most interesting mayor you’ve never heard of,” Pete Buttigieg, the thirty-seven-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has now emerged as one of the nation’s most visionary politicians. With soaring prose that celebrates a resurgent American...
| Author | David Brooks |
| ISBN | 0812993268 |
In The Second Mountain, David Brooks explores the four commitments that define a life of meaning and purpose: to a spouse and family, to a vocation, to a philosophy or faith, and to a community. Our personal fulfillment depends on how well we choose and execute these commitments. In The Second Mountain,...
| Author | Laila Ibrahim |
| ISBN | 1503904571 |
Southern China, 1923. Desperate to secure her future, Mei Ling’s parents arrange a marriage to a widower in California. To enter the country, she must pretend to be her husband’s first wife—a paper wife.
On the perilous voyage, Mei Ling takes an orphan girl named Siew under her wing....
| Author | Mary Oliver |
| ISBN | 0807068969 |
Thirst, a collection of forty-three new poems from the Pulitzer Prize-winner Mary Oliver, introduces two new directions in the poet's work. Grappling with grief at the death of the love of her life and partner of over forty years, the remarkable photographer Molly Malone Cook, she strives to experience...
| Author | Craig Shaw Gardner |
| ISBN | 0441516629 |
Picked this up off a book swap shelf at a railway station, and now I understand why it was left there. Complete rubbish.
The blurbs on the back cover claim readers will "laugh down the walls" and that "the field needs more humorists of this calibre". No, it really doesn't. The attempted humour...
The Gift of Being Yourself: The Sacred Call to Self-Discovery
| Author | David G. Benner |
| ISBN | 0830832459 |
Recipient of the Award of Merit in the Personal Growth/Individual Category of The Word Guild 2005 Canadian Christian Writing Awards! "Grant, Lord, that I may know myself that I may know thee." Augustine Much is said in Christian circles about knowing God. But Christians throughout the ages have agreed...
| Author | Oliver Jeffers |
| ISBN | 0008357919 |
There was once a man who believed he owned everything and set out to survey what was his.
“You are mine,” Fausto said to the flower, the sheep and the mountain, and they bowed before him. But they were not enough for Fausto, so he conquered a boat and set out to sea…
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